Aristophanes

Comprehensive information about Aristophanes including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Aristophanes (c. 448-385 b.c.), the great comic dramatist and poet of Athens. His birth-year is uncertain. He is known to have been about the same age as Eupolis, and is said to have been “almost a boy” when his first comedy (The Banqueters) was brought out in 427 b.c. This educational Aristophanes resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.